Lump sum into Nest Pension

[LatteLass]

For the first time in my life (57) my income this year will push me into the higher tax bracket.
I work for an agency so income varies each month. I do pay into a private pension but its a
relatively small amount which I am not allowed to increase.
Can I make a lump sum payment into an existing (but dormant) NEST pension scheme to get my annual income down into the lower tax bracket?
I have registered for tax self assessment but this is my first year.
I hope this makes sense!

Not sure why you can't add to your private pension. It's a good idea to make an additional contribution but I wouldn't do it to a Nest Scheme. If I were you I would transfer the Nest pot into a cheaper better platform and then make an additional contribution.
Nest take 1.8% of all contributions before they are invested so are not good value for money.

I would check out SIPP providers. DO check out Vanguard or investengine for easy eft options. Investmentegine is one of the low cost compared to lots of other SIPP providers.
If you have large corpus then fixed fee SIPP provider might be good ( such as freetrade).
Hope this helps

I didnt know this .

Old employers of mine set me up with a nest

Dya have a source / link for that last sentence or 2 please ?

Here is were nest show the contributions fee. You do have to scroll down quite a bit.
https://www.nestpensions.org.uk/schemeweb/nest/my-nest-pension/contributions-and-fees.html

In comparison here is a link to the AJBell SIPP fees page.
https://www.ajbell.co.uk/pensions/sipp/charges