This paper explores the guaranteed cost control issue for singular Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy systems with time delay. An augmented Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional (LKF) is adopted to analyze the system’s stabilization, and sufficient conditions are established based on Lyapunov stability theory. The method of free weight matrices is employed to provide a systematic approach for determining the controller parameters. Additionally, two compelling examples are presented to demonstrate the viability of the proposed methods.