Nearly $1 billion in tax refunds for people who never filed their 2020 tax returns is still unclaimed, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said. Time is running out to get the money. May 17 is the deadline. While taxpayers usually have three years to file tax returns, you get an extra month because the 2020 tax deadline was extended during the pandemic. That also extended the deadline for late returns, the IRS said. If you don’t claim the money by the deadline, it becomes the property of the U.S. Treasury, the IRS said. Nearly 25,000 New Jersey residents are estimated to have pending refunds to…