(Bloomberg) — Chris Christie will lay out plans to means test Social Security and raise the retirement age during a speech Tuesday in early-voting New Hampshire, as he seeks to crack the top tier of the party's 2016 hopefuls.

Christie, the 52-year-old Republican governor of New Jersey, will call for phasing out retirement payments to those with more than $200,000 a year in other income and smaller reductions for those earning $80,000, according to excerpts released by his political action committee.

Spelling out his plans in detail for the first time, Christie said he'll also propose:

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